Healing Developmental Trauma
Laurence Heller and Aline LaPierre present the NeuroAffective Relational Model, a clinical framework Heller developed for adult survivors of childhood developmental trauma. The book walks through five core needs the developing self requires, connection, attunement, trust, autonomy, and love-sexuality, and the five survival styles that emerge when those needs are unmet in early childhood. Each survival style gets a detailed chapter with clinical-session transcripts showing the model in action. Heller trained under Peter Levine in the early Somatic Experiencing community, and NARM grew from his decades of clinical practice and his work training therapists internationally.
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The clinical handbook for the NeuroAffective Relational Model, walking through five core developmental needs and the survival styles that emerge when childhood trauma disrupts them.
Healing Developmental Trauma was written by Laurence Heller and Aline Lapierre and published in 2012. Heller developed the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM), a clinical approach to early-childhood trauma.
The book is aimed at therapists, with technical clinical material and case studies. General readers interested in trauma can extract value, but the writing assumes some familiarity with trauma psychology.
Healing Developmental Trauma is a standalone novel by Laurence Heller, not part of a series.
Healing Developmental Trauma is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
